TENCHU Z ARTICLES

June 19, 2007 - Familiarity breeds contempt. It is yet another assassination mission. With the toss of a grappling hook, you've quickly scaled the perimeter. The elevated perch provides a view of the patrolmen making rounds. This could be tricky - fortunately you've already been in this exact same situation at a very similar location. After a quick survey, you spot the small annex jutting off the rear of the main compound. That is, no doubt, where the greedy merchant you've been sent to punish conducts his pacing and grumbling. All that is left is to scamper across the roof, drop to the ground, dispatch the guard and plunge your sword through the shoji screen into the glutton's gut.

June 12, 2007 - Xbox 360 owners can now realize Real Ultimate Power as Tenchu Z, the latest in the long-running ninja simulation franchise, has shipped to retail. Co-published by Microsoft and From Software and developed by experienced Tenchu studio K2, Z allows players to live the life of a ninja. Jump over a building, get really mad, hypnotize someone The many secret weapons of the ninja are at your disposal.

May 25, 2007 - Today Microsoft announced the Xbox 360 exclusive Tenchu Z has gone gold and will be sneaking onto store shelves June 12. The fifth console game in the ninja series, Z takes players back to ancient Japan where they will assassinate unfortunate souls over 50 missions.

April 4, 2007 - The term "platinum" is usually used in reference to a product that has sold a million plus units. Such a feat isn't exactly possible for Xbox 360 software in Japan, where the hardware hasn't even crossed the 400,000 mark yet, but Microsoft still likes to refer to its budget lineup as the "Platinum Collection."

March 23, 2007 - You bought your Xbox 360 for 2007. Last year may have brought some fantastic games like Gears of War and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, but this year will make 2007 look like chump change. The juggernaut that is Halo 3 is on the horizon. But we're not quite there yet. Lost Planet and Crackdown have already brought joy to hundreds of thousands of gamers. But that is in the past. This is the Spring and unlike most years, it has a steady stream of games that scream to be played.
If you can tear your eyes away from reading every scrap of Halo 3 news or counting down the seconds to the first look at Grand Theft Auto IV, you'll find that the next few months will hold you over to the Fall and then some. The stellar Guitar Hero II is finally making its way to Xbox 360, the first cross platform FPS arrives, a sequel to the best Xbox sim racer, and then there is a little game called Mass Effect that you might have heard of.
The releases never stop coming and that's why we're here. Read on to find 10 picks we think you should take a look at as well as a list of games you should keep your eye on over the Spring months of April, May, and June. Rather than rank them (we don't know enough about many of them to do that just yet) and since release dates constantly change, we've put the list in alphabetical order to keep things nice and tidy. There's enough here to last you through the April showers and straight into your Summer vacation.

March 21, 2007 - Microsoft unveiled a new feature to Tenchu Z today, your ninja's ability to wear clothes that don't make you look like a ninja. Yes indeed! In the latest Tenchu game, which Microsoft plans to publish this summer on Xbox 360, you can wear ordinary clothes, walk among the people, and not look entirely out of place while eating your lunch-time sushi.

January 19, 2007 - Having debuted at Tokyo Game Show in late 2006, the fourth proper game in the Tenchu series gave IGN editors slight pause when the demo disc appeared on our desks. We knew the game was in development by FromSoftware, but little else.

September 20, 2006 - Shadowy stealth kills and rooftop hopping rank among the most popular ninja activities, just above dressing in drag and penciling in false mustaches. Or so we're lead to believe after getting some hands-on time with the latest Tenchu demo made available on Xbox Live Marketplace in Japan.

September 20, 2006 - Fulfilling is promise to "Bring It Home" from the Tokyo Game, Microsoft's Xbox 360 fans can now download everything from a playable Tenchu demo to Project Sylpheed, Lost Planet, and DOAX2 demo trailers to TGS picture packs via Xbox 360 Marketplace. Microsoft's promise to make its virtual online shopping center and demo library is, as demonstrated at this year's E3, also a timely place to see footage of the Tokyo Game Show (as soon as it starts, that is).

September 20, 2006 - Microsoft has been keeping gamers in the dark on its Tokyo Game Show plans for the Xbox 360, but following the end of its pre-show press conference today, it was at last willing to speak. It turns out that the Microsoft booth will be full of titles, with everything from Riot Act to Blue Dragon appearing in playable form.

July 11, 2006 - From Software has opened up an official site for the Xbox 360 version of Tenchu. The site is in a teaser state at this point, but includes a couple of tiny gameplay movies. Check it out here.

October 3, 2005 - Xbox 360 won't be without its Japanese-style stealth, From Software revealed at the recent Tokyo Game Show. The company is bringing the Tenchu series to Microsoft's next generation box, under the tentatively titled "Tenchu 360." While little has been revealed on the game aside from the mysterious TGS trailer, the recent premier issue of Famitsu Xbox 360 includes an interview with developer K2's CEO Mituo Kodama and Chief Planner Masanori Kuwasashi in which the two share a few intriguing details.

September 21, 2005 - What's better than the announcements of two new From Software titles for Xbox 360? How about two new Live-enabled From Software titles for the system. The company has revealed that both Armored Core 4 and Tenchu 360, just announced at last week's Tokyo Game Show, will have Xbox Live support.

September 16, 2005 - On the first day of TGS From announced two new titles that are currently in development for Xbox 360. A lengthy trailer jam packed with warring mechs was played and announced to be Armored Core 4. The game has already been announced for PS3 and we currently have a few screenshots from the trailer.